Category: Education

  By Duncan Mlanjira Following reports that government has sold Livimbo school campus to a person of Asian origin, some concerned citizens have asked the authorities to revisit title deeds to lands that were politically grabbed from Asian owners by the Malawi Congress Party-led government. Reports trending on social media are that government has sold the public school to an Asian, who has told school management to vacate the premises as he wants to pull down the public infrastructure…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira The Vice-President of the Republic of Malawi, the Right Honourable Everton Herbert Chimulirenji, has inaugurated the MACOHA flag week with an assurance that governrment will continue promoting access to education for all including persons with disabilities. The Vice-President pointed out that government realizes that persons with disabilities face a lot of challenges, hence it has put in place legal instruments in order to protect the rights of persons with disabilities. The Right Honourable Chimulirenji said…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira Malawi Council of Churches Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) and the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC) has asked the government not to dictate to them on what to do following the statement from the Ministry of Education that said no child should be excluded from school for dressing according to their religious rights unless the type of dress offends public morality or school discipline. The communique from the Ministry’s Secretary for Education, Science and Technology,…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira President Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika has said the University of Malawi done its best since establishment in 1965. Mutharika, who is the University of Malawi’s Chancellor, said this at the graduation congregation in Zimbabwe on Friday where he also said the ceremony is a moment of self-examination to define the tertiary education institution’s growth.  He said it was decided that each UNIMA college should become a university because the goal is to create more space…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira Charitable organization, Bangwe HIV/Aids Self-Help Initiative (BAHASI), believes that anything that can be done to improve the future for Malawi’s vulnerable children can only be done starting with the citizenry itself rather than just looking up to leaders and donors to do it. This is the drive that BAHASI’s board chairperson Reena Purshotam emphases on as the NGO also strives to improve the welfare of vulnerable groups affected and infected by HIV/Aids as well as…

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President Peter Arthur Mutharika has said discussion for the establishment of this Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) was started while he and his brother, former State President late Bingu, were in the Diaspora way back in the 1980s.  “We had always dreamt of a University that would nurture our African pride,” the President told the congregation at at the graduation ceremony of Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) on Tuesday, November 5. In a speech entitled…

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